Thanks Elaine. I have yanked and pulled and made as much space as I can in the ground. Just about all walls have 5 gallon buckets lining them. I get inspired to find more space every time there is a brug or iochroma I want. I am just in love with these plants!!
Rhapsody

Doing a lot of plater size upgrades. My back doesn't like me right now. Some of the brugs I purchased and traded for last year are ready to go from the one gallon pots into 3 or 5 gallon pots. Lots of potting soil and compost from Home Depot... already need more!! When they get to bloom'n I will post picts!

I was told not to plant them in pots more then one to two sizes large. I would love to put the one gallon plants in a five gallon pot. Do you think that will be ok? I do have a lot of work to do with them. Even bought paint pens to write on the outside of the pot to insure the label never get lost. Any advise is more then welcomed!

Yeah, I know but brugs grow so fast . . . I had one - my first start of Monster White - go from a cutting size to a 4ft. shrub in one season. Three times I re-potted it. The heck with that, let the thing grow!

My belief is the bigger pot you put it in the bigger it will get by the fall. If you want to hold them back to a certain size, that's the only good reason to use smaller pots.

That being said, my huge ones are now in the biggest pots that I can handle, so I just prune them back after each bloom cycle to keep them going in the same pot. I've yanked them and refreshed the soil once, and I add scoops of new potting soil on top occasionally after I fertilize. I may eventually have to resort to root pruning, but really I think I'll just grow a new plant. The big ones can retire to the back garden, and will slowly decline - they can't compete with all the tree roots around our house.

These pictures show the cuttings started in early May of 2011. The wimpy one on the left is Monster White. The other two pics were taken in September of 2011. Nuff said.

Elaine

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill

Thanks. Just wanted to make sure I had the right tool in mind. I am the son my father never had. LOL This girl looovvveessss her tools. My dad bought a wet tile saw when I bought my house. I needed a new subfloor and put it in myself. I am the queen in tools in the LBC!!